Register for a Dialogue Group
How can I participate in the Sustained Dialogue program?
Our campus provides multiple opportunities for faculty, staff, and students to access the Sustained Dialogue Institute workshops. This includes attending either a three-day workshop or a workshop for 90 minutes each week for 10 weeks. Both opportunities are virtual.
3-Day "Weekend Warrior" Workshop
This workshop is hosted by Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and is ONLY OPEN TO students, faculty, staff, and administrators from SIUE. You must register for this workshop with your SIUE email address.
This workshop will meet over three days. The workshop session dates are as follows:
- Friday, February 24 from 4:30 - 7:45 pm CST
- Saturday, February 25 from 9:00 am - 5:00 pm CST
- Sunday, February 26 from 9:00 am - 5:00 pm CST
Register here for this workshop: http://tiny.cc/SIUESDWW
10-Week Workshop
The Sustained Dialogue 10-Week Program is a series, facilitated by Sustained Dialogue Institute staff trainers that will meet virtually on Thursdays from 2:00pm-3:30pm from February 23, 2023 to May 18, 2023 (while skipping March 23, April 6, and April 13). This workshop is a public workshop run by the Sustained Dialogue Institute. It is not specific to SIUE and if you pick this workshop you will be in a group with participants from many different communities. Space is limited to 40 participants, so please sign up only if you can make the session each time.
Before registering, email inclusion@siue.edu for the discount code to register for free.
Register here for this workshop: http://tiny.cc/SIUESD
Why should you learn how to facilitate the Sustained Dialogue process?
The Sustained Dialogue® (SD) process helps diverse groups build relationships and move from talk to action on issues affecting their communities.
Many in the U.S. recognize the need to bridge divides and to build relationships across differences to tackle complex problems like coastal flooding. Yet, addressing these problems can often feel overwhelming. Sustained Dialogue® is a process that can be applied to solve community problems in a less overwhelming way. The Sustained Dialogue® process can help diverse groups find shared interests and identify achievable group actions to address challenges. Through dialogue, participants collectively develop effective solutions more quickly than any would on their own.
During this workshop with the Sustained Dialogue Institute, workshop participants will learn:
- skills for being in dialogue with others
- how to create conditions for dialogue
- how to apply these skills to building relationships and addressing complex problems within their communities
If you complete all 3 days of the "Weekend Warrior" workshop OR all 10 sessions of the 10-week series, you will be trained to co-facilitate a dialogue group for your workplace, community, or campus using the Sustained Dialogue Institute materials provided by the Sustained Dialogue Institute.
The Sustained Dialogue Moderator Skill Series will :
- NOT train you in how to train others to facilitate dialogue or to replicate the training experience that you received from the Sustained Dialogue Institute through this course. This means that you may NOT use any of the activities, content, or materials from the Sustained Dialogue Institute workshop series to train other people in how to facilitate dialogue.
- You also may NOT distribute, reproduce, share, or upload any content from the Sustained Dialogue Institute (including Sustained Dialogue Institute Sustained Moderator Skill Series handouts) without first receiving explicit written permission from the Sustained Dialogue Institute staff to do so.
This workshop series is for people who are interested in learning by “doing” and who are willing to participate in large and small group activities that may involve:
- sharing about their own identities openly
- listening deeply to others
- working collaboratively with others to develop solutions to community problems